When we acknowledge that “all wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory,” the picture becomes infinitely more complex. Scholars have shown how marking the formal, legal end to armed conflicts is much more difficult than it appears at first glance. There is much truth to the adage that wars are easy to begin and hard to end. Concluding the narrative of the Vietnam War on Apseems obvious (even if for many, painful) insofar as the war was finally over. combat troops home in March 1973, the inglorious exit in April 1975 was depicted then and has been generally remembered since as a fitting conclusion to the nation’s first military loss, the exclamation point at the end of a long line of failures and embarrassments in which the limits of American power were thrown into sharp relief. Although the Peace of Paris Accords had brought the last of U.S. helicopter frantically evacuating individuals off a rooftop in downtown Saigon. government, the rapid fall of Saigon spurred a hasty, humiliating exit immortalized in Dutch photographer Hubert Van Es’ (in)famous image of a U.S. Accordingly, for Vietnamese communities in the United States, April 30 th is commemorated as a day of grief and mourning, “Black April.” For the U.S. For the victorious Vietnamese, what they called the liberation of Saigon marked a “total victory after thirty years of grim and bloody sacrifice.” For those Vietnamese who lost, the events of late April evoke the collapse of their country, the erasure of their nation from the geopolitical map, an indescribable loss.
Apis commonly understood to be the dramatic endpoint of the Vietnam War.
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